. . . ICT is for the Ideal Cannon Truck! Except these are Kleeware!
Lucky score on evilBay the other day, and
off a friend so all the sweeter to get some cash to a mate! They needed a bit
of hot-water treatment and while I was at it they all got a scrub as they were
made of that plastic late Bergen soldiers are made of and were filthy with
leachate as if they had been weathered with oxide-orange powder and then oiled!
Now quite the parade but only a half-company,
they nevertheless tick a box in the collection and one here I guess! Imported
by Kleeware from Ideal (there's nothing between them bar the packaging - I was
bidding on the searchlight truck recently, but not seriously - too big!) and
presented as targets in a shooting game . . . Chris Smith reminded me they were
in Plastic Warrior a while
ago, so it really is only box-ticking on this one!
The middle one has a permanent headache,
due to having had his helmet split through with a big axe . . . or something! And the jacket is more Nazi tank-commander than cannon-fodder?
Kline's store catalogue from 1968 USA has the whole caboodle for five dollars,
which - back in the day - was less than two quid, a lot less! Full company is
six figures, six cannon-balls, a huge 'Big Bertha' cannon and the truck which
is used for other toys with body-changes or trailers, the canopy hasn't been
included in the shot, I think the PW
one had it present?
"I'll 'av yer'rover yer' top'evy wazzock!"
Obviously one-sided relief flats with a
reinforcing bar at right-angles to the figures, and around 120mm, manufactured
in the previously mentioned soft polyethylene.
Added 14-12-21 - The same set in its British catalogue guise, to all extents and purposes the same set as the US one, but with the canvas-tilt visible, which wasn't included in the Kline's image. As there is nothing to tell when these turn-up on evilBay, it would appear to be shipped product rather than mould-share, which would have been expensive for one party or both, depending on how they agreed to share the tariff bill! Also with the Kleeware catalogue ten-years older than Kline's, one wonders in which direction that traffic was?
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